Word: rule
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...country they rule, at least, remains something of a concentration camp. Its capital city not only shuts its people in with an infamous wall, but its western borders bristle with 860 miles of fortifications-with machine guns pointing inward at the East Germans themselves. East Germany is still a police state, in which political prisoners by the thousands languish in jails...
...first, riceroots step in a march toward democracy that will be paced over the next six months. The local balloting will run through the summer, then national elections for President and an upper house of representatives will be held on Sept. 1. On Oct. 1, the return to civilian rule will be completed with elections for representatives to a lower house. For a nation at war, the polling process itself is a daring, even dangerous, vote of confidence in the future...
Feudal Loyalty. In the first phase of local elections, 1,004 villages will elect councils of six to twelve members, with the candidate receiving the largest vote becoming chairman of the village. The councils will restore a large measure of long-lost self-rule to the villagers, since they will be empowered to make decisions in some 15 different spheres, ranging from taxation to school construction. They will be able to spend up to $425 on their own; larger sums must be discussed with province chiefs or Saigon. As the next step, 4,487 hamlets (subdivisions of villages) will elect...
Groundswell of Discontent. In the end, more than half of South Viet Nam's citizenry in the countryside will be unable to vote because they live in Viet Cong-dominated areas beyond Saigon's emerging rule of law. Since self-rule at the village and hamlet level is so much part and parcel of the Vietnamese way of life, both Saigon and Washington hope that the example of the next few months will have its effect in Communist areas by creating a groundswell of discontent directed against the Viet Cong, in envy of the newly restored and visible...
Catholics & Conscience. The pill poses two grave moral problems. The first affects Roman Catholics and, for different theological reasons, the smaller number of Orthodox Jews. Not until 1930 did the Vatican modify the Augustinian rule that sex must be for procreation, when Pope Pius XI approved the rhythm method. The Vatican has banned all mechanical and chemical contraception. But Dr. Rock, an unswerving Catholic, has been arguing ever since he sired the pill that its use imitates nature-which occasionally, but only occasionally, makes a woman skip ovulation-and that it should therefore be approved by the Vatican...